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unusual facts about Santander, Cantabria



2009 Italian Grand Prix

The 2009 Italian Grand Prix (formally the LXXX Gran Premio Santander d'Italia) was a Formula One motor race held on September 13, 2009 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy.

Álvaro Pombo

Born in Santander, Cantabria, he studied at the Complutense University of Madrid and received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he lived between 1966 and 1977.

Amaya o los vascos en el siglo VIII

Eudes, duke of Cantabria, is Pacomio's son, but, by hiding his Jewish origin, has reached a high post in the Visigoth kingdom and aspires to power beyond what his allies and his father would allow.

Bárcena

Bárcena de Cicero, municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain

Bárcena de Pie de Concha, municipality in the autonomous community of Cantabria, Spain

Basque Auxiliary Navy

They also played a key role in the evacuation of civilians who fled as the rebel armies advanced from coastal cities such as Gijón and Santander.

Bernard 190

Painted bright yellow and dubbed Oiseau Canari ("Canary Bird") it departed Old Orchard Beach, Maine on June 13, 1929 and piloted by Jean Assolant, René Lefèvre and Armand Lotti, it completed the crossing to Oyambre, near Comillas, Cantabria, Spain, in 29 hours 52 minutes, even with a stowaway (Arthur Schreiber) aboard.

Capture of Bacharach

Córdoba left a garrison of 300 soldiers in Bacharach and sent most of his troops under the commanders Diego Ruiz and Baltasar de Santander to capture Kaub.

Concepción Arenal

Penniless she was forced to sell all her possessions in Armaño and moved into the house of violinist and composer Jesús de Monasterio in Potes, Cantabria, where in 1859 she founded the feminist group Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul in order to help the poor.

Division of the North

Romana and his men arrived at Santander, Spain, where he was appointed Commander of the Galician Armada.

Eduardo García de Enterría

Born in Ramales de la Victoria, Cantabria, he studied law at the Universities of Barcelona and Madrid, where he obtained his Doctoral Degree, cum laude.

El Musel

El Musel is a seaport located in Asturias, in the north of Spain, and in the middle point of the Cantabrian Sea coast it has the Port of Gijón which is a gateway to Europe through the A-66 Madrid-Asturias and Cantabrian highways, allowing direct access to the western and centre of the Iberian Peninsula.

Enrique García Ojeda

Enrique García Ojeda (born January 21, 1972 in Los Corrales de Buelna, Cantabria) is a Spanish rally driver, who won the 2007 Intercontinental Rally Challenge (IRC).

Ernest Lluch

On January 2, 1989, he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.

Fausto Vega Santander

Fausto Vega Santander was born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, his parents were Albino Vega and María Santander.

General Santander National Police Academy

The General Santander Academy holds strategic alliances primarily with the United States agencies Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) due to the recent War on Drugs and the implementation of the Plan Colombia which has become part of the War on terror and because of its experience on these it has become as one of the most apt educational centers for law enforcement in Latin America.

Giovanni Buscaglione

He designed buildings across many departments of Colombia including Amazonas, Antioquia, Bolívar, Boyacá, Cundinamarca, Meta, Santander and Valle del Cauca.

Holly Hagan

Before Geordie Shore, Holly worked for HM Revenue and Customs and in sales at a Santander call centre, in hopes of launching a career as a glamour model.

HSenid Mobile Solutions

Financial institutions belonging to hSenid Mobile’s customer base include Santander Bank (Mexico), TODO 1 (USA), Seylan Bank (Sri Lanka) and HNB (Sri Lanka).

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

He had a history of job instability and considered that he could get a position worthy of his status as a reincarnation of Santander and Quesada.

José de Escandón, 1st Count of Sierra Gorda

Between December 25, 1748, the date of the foundation of Llera, and 1755, he founded over twenty towns or villages and a number of missions in the colony, including Santander, Soto la Marina, Güemes, Camargo, Reynosa, Mier, and Revilla south of the Rio Grande, and Laredo and Nuestra Señora de los Dolores hacienda north of the Rio Grande.

Juan Carlos Arteche

Born in Maliaño, Cantabria, Arteche started playing professionally with hometown's Racing de Santander, making his debuts in the 1976–77 season and playing 19 La Liga games as the club finished 15th, barely avoided relegation.

Juan de Ávalos

Author of Los amantes de Teruel (The Lovers of Teruel) in Teruel, Monumento a Luis Carrero Blanco (Monument to Luis Carrero Blanco) in Santoña, Cantabria, his most important works are those of the Valle de los Caídos ("The Valley of the Fallen"), a majestic monument in Madrid where Francisco Franco's body lies.

Las Merindades

It is bounded on the north-west by the province of Cantabria, north-east by the province of Biscay, south by La Bureba, south-east by Ebro, south-west by Páramos, and on the east by the province of Álava.

Luis Enrique Delgado

Luis Enrique Delgado (born October 26, 1980 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian football goalkeeper.

Mantecadas

There is a factory producing mantecadas in Sardón de Duero, Valladolid Province and another in Maliaño, Cantabria.

Mayflower High School

A house on site also facilitates the staying of language assistants, natives of either Germany, Spain or France, to assist students with their language studies, and all three subjects are complimented by trips to the relevant country, previous trips having sent students to Santander and Barcelona.

MV Bretagne

Bretagne has previously been used on Spanish routes, operating between Plymouth and Santander.

National University of Colombia

Some landmarks in the campus are the León de Greiff Auditorium, and the Francisco de Paula Santander Plaza, also known unofficially as the "Central Plaza" or the "Ché Plaza", in honour of Ernesto el Ché Guevara.

Nigel de Gruchy

After graduating, he taught English at the Berlitz Schools at Santander from 1965-6, and Versailles from 1966-7.

Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Old Orchard Beach is the twin city of the French seaside resort of Mimizan, as a reminder of Oiseau Canari, the pioneer aircraft crossing of the Atlantic by Assollant, Lefèvre and Lotti in 1929 to Oyambre (Cantabria, Spain).

Ottery St Mary

The aircraft, an Alidair Vickers Viscount turboprop, flying 62 passengers from Santander to Exeter was eleven miles short of the runway over a wooded area on East Hill, just before the town, when it ran out of fuel and all four engines stopped.

Paola Rey

Paola Andrea Rey Arciniegas (born December 19, 1979 in San Gil, Santander, Colombia) is a Colombian actress and model.

Pasaje Del Terror

Pasaje Del Terror is an interactive walk-through horror attraction with branches in thirty different cities in Spain, including Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville, Malaga, Salou, Santander, etc. as well as some of the major cities of the world, such as Rome, Lisbon, Blackpool, Buenos Aires, Bariloche, Cancun, San Salvador and Tokyo.

Puerto del Escudo

The Puerto del Escudo (Pass of the Shield) is a mountain pass at 1,011 meters elevation located in the valley of Luena, to the east of the Sierra del Escudo mountain range and on the boundary between Cantabria and Castile (province of Burgos) in Spain.

Rafael Ortega

For the next defence of his title Ortega travelled to Cantabria, Spain, which was the hometown of the challenger Cecilio Lastra.

Rosario de Acuña Villanueva de la Iglesia

After the death of her husband in 1900, she shifted to Cueto (Cantabria) and started a poultry farm.

Santander

Gustavo Santander, Colombian composer and brother of Kike Santander

Santander Brasil

Santander is the fifth largest commercial bank in Brazil by assets, after Itaú Unibanco, Banco do Brasil, Bradesco and Caixa Econômica Federal.

Santander Group

On 10 June 2010, Grupo Santander announced an investment of approximately US$270 million (€200 million) in Campinas, Brazil for a technology centre, research and data processing, which will include a next-generation data centre.

In March 2008, Banco Santander sold Interbanca, a subsidiary of Banca Antonveneta, to GE Commercial Finance, receiving in return GE Money businesses in Germany, Finland and Austria, and GE's card and auto-financing businesses in the UK, which it integrated with Santander Consumer Finance.

Sherman Cárdenas

Sherman Andrés Cárdenas Estupiñán (born 7 August 1989 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Atlético Nacional.

Stanislav Bartůšek

In 2000, his documentary named Za císaře... (For the Emperor...) presenting the life story of Czech cyclist Jan Veselý won the Juan Antonio Samaranch Award at the Santander Sports Movies Festival.

Tomás Antonio Sánchez

Tomás Antonio Sánchez de Uribe (Cantabria, 1723–1802, Madrid), was a controversial ecclesiastic and the first editor of several basic texts of Spanish Medieval Literature, including the Cantar del Mio Cid.


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